How to configure unixODBC

by Milosz Galazka on July 31, 2017

You can connect custom-built shell script with any database using unixODBC an implementation of the Open Database Connectivity standard and I will show you how to do this for SQLite and PostgreSQL databases.

Essential packages

Install unixodbc package and notice that the odbcinst package will be installed as dependency. You need both of these packages and additional drivers to make things work together.